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Angry AT&T Customers May Disrupt Service
g0dsp33d writes "Fake Steve Jobs, the alter-alias of Newsweek's Dan Lyons, is calling disgruntled AT&T users to protest comments from AT&T’s Ralph de la Vega that smart phone (specifically iPhone) usage is responsible for their network issues and his plan to end unlimited data plans. The post, dubbed 'Operation Chokehold,' wants AT&T customers to use as much data service as they can on Friday, December 18th at noon. While Fake Steve Jobs is notable for its satire, many Twitter and Facebook users seem to be rallying to its cry. It is unclear if there will be enough support to cause a DDOS."
Well what are they going for? 19th is saturday, not friday. Maybe they should had check little facts like those before yelling everyone to join their clause.
Well, the iPhone idiots accomplished something impossible: make AT&T look sane.
Fuck systemd. Fuck Redhat. Fuck Soylent, too. Wait, scratch the last one.
I hate to break it to you, but the highly vaunted "news" you speak about IS the distracting toy.
"But this one goes to 11!"
Because almost everyone that 'likes' the iPhone is blindly following the popular crowd and not actually evaluating how crappy the phone is for themselves. People like myself who are able to independently determine how absolutely crappy the phone really is make a point to tell the sheep to get a clue as to hopefully improve the phone. My complaints with the iPhone are mostly service-unrelated.
You are citing the progeny of the breakup of AT&T - the telecommunications giant that was the US National Monopoly through the 1970s.
All of your sub-entities or new entities existed to fill the vacuum created by antitrust litigation beginning in the 1960s to break up the monopoly.
AT&T existed before and is doing exactly what it did to bring about its divestiture.
Kill it. Kill it dead. It only gets one chance to stop being a monopoly. Leave every shareholder BROKE.
The time is right and the entity and all of its employees, leaders and shareholders should pay the ultimate price. I'd go so far as to bar the top 3 tiers of management from working in the telecommunications industry again - just as was done with Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky - a criminal sanction for criminal acts.
FRY AT&T - the perfect way to tell the entities that are too big to fail that they are not too big to destroy.
Imagine how nice, polite and competitive the remaining providers would be if they knew they would be toast if they tried this bait-and-switch service BS.
RT SEC finings...
The animal is the same animal as we split up. It is showing the same spots it showed 40 years ago.
Kill it before it grows more powerful. Look, how many wiretaps are you willing to allow? Time to burn this baby monster. They have paid fines for changing their tower frequencies to interfere with competitors - we ought to bust them for that, alone.
BTW, radio-telephone existed LOOONG before cellular radio-telephone - says the guy who had his 1st 'phone at 16 - signed by Ben F. Waple of the FCC.
Now, take the b ig dog and put it down. Nothing makes the rest of the pack respect you more than offing the top dog.
AT&T is a monopoly and has to die!